The Prologues and Epilogues of William Caxton

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Early English Text Society, 1928 - 115 páginas
 

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Página 117 - BC 2. The Subscription to the Society, which constitutes full membership, is £2 2s. a year for the annual publications, from 1921 onwards, due in advance on the 1st of JANUARY, and should be paid by Cheque, Postal Order, or Money Order, crost 'National Provincial Bank Limited,
Página 109 - Englysshe not in rude and olde langage, but in polysshed and ornate termes craftely, as he that hath redde Vyrgyle, Ouyde, Tullye, and all the other noble poetes and oratours to me vnknowen.
Página 91 - ... one gentylman cam to me / and said that this book was not accordyng in many places vnto the book that Gefferey chaucer had made...
Página 76 - Thus endeth the legende named | in latyn legenda aurea / that is to saye ' | in englysshe the golden legende / For | lyke as golde passeth in valewe alle | other metalles / so thys legende excedeth | alle other bookes...
Página 93 - And in dyvers places of Englond many remembraunces ben yet of hym and shall remayne perpetuelly, and also of his knyghtes : fyrst, in the abbey of Westmestre, at Saynt Edwardes shryne, remayneth the prynte of his seal in reed waxe, closed in beryll, in whych is...
Página 93 - I ought rather t'enprynte his actes and noble feates than of Godefroye of Boloyne or ony of the other eyght, consyderyng that he was a man borne wythin this royame and kyng and emperour of the same, and that there ben in Frensshe dyvers and many noble volumes of his actes, and also of his knyghtes.
Página 91 - ... hys owen first book by hym made, and sayd more yf I wold enprynte it agayn he wold gete me the same book for a copye, how be it he wyst wel, that hys fader wold not gladly departe fro it...
Página 3 - Mars (nouv. style) l'hclippc, par la grace de Dieu, duc de Bourgoingne, de Lothier, de Brabant et de Lembourg, conte de Flandres, d'Artois, de Bourgoingne, palatin de Haynnau, de Hollande, de Zellande...